Plasma menubar design questions

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Hi,

As you probably know if you read PlanetKDE, I am working on implementing
a global menubar for KDE, using DBusMenu. Here is a link to the post in
case you missed it:

http://agateau.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/getting-menus-out-of-application-windows/

It is composed of a Qt patch and a Plasma menubar widget.

It is starting to work reasonably, but I have some design questions
though: what should the widget show when no application is active?
Similarly, what should it show when the selected application window has
no menubar?

Right now it just shows a "Menu" item which contains a disabled "No
items" entry, but this can probably be improved. What do you think would
be the best?

Aurélien